Gene Machine doodie

 I (and hubby) joke about "doodies".

Doodie is short for do-di-do-di; do-di-do-di as in signature tune for "The Twilight Zone".

That theme tune implies something creepy and unpredictable - possibly supernatural.

 Not being into "wooh" science and the like, I have, of course, criteria for what constitutes a Doodie.

Example - my first acknowledged Doodie wa as follows:

Alone one evening - family all away, I suddenly got an urge to locate a vinyl record of "Dark Side of The Moon" . Firstly, I knew next to nothing about it, just a vague idea of one of the songs and not even sure it was on that record. Second, I wasn't sure there was such a vinyl in the house nor where my husband might store things. Thirdly -- for what!?? Fourthly, I can count on one hand the number of times I have initiated a musical recording of any kind. 

Anyway,  after a search, I found and played it. It felt good. Big deal.

However a day later there was nothing but stuff about about the album and Pink Floyd on radio, on TV. 

Called this a "doodie". 

Broadly, criteria are: it seems to appear out of nowhere, it is unattached to usual affiliated things, it comes up within a couple of days after entering the noggin unbidden.

Things such as "I was just thinking of you and now you have phoned me" do not count! Loads of readily accessible reasons for such a coincidence. 

There have been several such episodes since. Husbands tries to shoe-horn some of his coincidences into the category but rarely succeeds (ha ha) - mostly just regular coincidences that can be explained as "just thinking of ya" types of coincidences.

Today, I was rummaging in my FO's (Finished Objects) that hang about in trunks and drawers when I fetched out perhaps my biggest Doodie.

In October 2019 I was taken with the idea of knitting a rug based on the relationship between RNA bases and the proteins they represent. A brilliant young woman had made a chart to illustrate this - 

I have her name somewhere and must add it ASAP. 

Anyway I wanted to convert this into a knitted rug with Dark Blue as Guanine; Light Blue as Adenine; Dark Green as Cytocine and Yellow as Uracil then other colours for amino acids.

Not my best work - but when I finished it towards the end of December little did I know just how much talk about RNA was on its way. Yes it violated the time criteria i.e. the chatter on the media about RNA came some time after my initial inkling of making such a thing but still - it fills the creepy criteria to such a degree that I'm allowing it in.